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authorDon Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>2011-03-22 16:34:16 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-03-22 17:44:12 -0700
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kernel/watchdog.c: allow hardlockup to panic by default
When a cpu is considered stuck, instead of limping along and just printing a warning, it is sometimes preferred to just panic, let kdump capture the vmcore and reboot. This gets the machine back into a stable state quickly while saving the info that got it into a stuck state to begin with. Add a Kconfig option to allow users to set the hardlockup to panic by default. Also add in a 'nmi_watchdog=nopanic' to override this. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix strncmp length] Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Reviewed-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/watchdog.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/watchdog.c5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/watchdog.c b/kernel/watchdog.c
index 18bb15776c57..054a67cca9da 100644
--- a/kernel/watchdog.c
+++ b/kernel/watchdog.c
@@ -48,12 +48,15 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct perf_event *, watchdog_ev);
* Should we panic when a soft-lockup or hard-lockup occurs:
*/
#ifdef CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
-static int hardlockup_panic;
+static int hardlockup_panic =
+ CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE;
static int __init hardlockup_panic_setup(char *str)
{
if (!strncmp(str, "panic", 5))
hardlockup_panic = 1;
+ else if (!strncmp(str, "nopanic", 7))
+ hardlockup_panic = 0;
else if (!strncmp(str, "0", 1))
watchdog_enabled = 0;
return 1;